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I have wondered that too. I wouldn't say most,,,,but many customers compain about the cost a normal cleaning. The run it till the heath department inspects em and gigs em for their dirty IM, then a service call is issued.

I would love to see a real world time lapse video of a IM in the places where we see bad things happens. BTW,,,, how long is the lumiice good for?

But just selling them on the price prob would be the hard part, lol.

I guess its human nature to run it till it breaks.

They say to change the bulb once a year.
They also say it will work best on a new machine........ Sounds like you can not start off with a slimmer and expect anything.

i recently cleaned a machine & was questioned as to why i removed parts & soaked them. also why did i have to use a chemical to circulate in the water or scrub the machine interior when no 1 has ever done any of this before. this was a very busy establishment, with a very very dirty machine. this manager has no issue spending money to clean a machine either might i add. not only are the end users not properly educated in machine maintenance . . some so called techs & refrigeration guys are too

I hope you released that pink snot into the wild. It's a living thing you know. Sure would hate to think you killed it.

According to "MicrobeWiki, our very own government has done this.
They filled balloons of the bacterium Serratia Marcescen, then exploded them over SanFrancisco to track it's growth. Then found out it was a possible cause of pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.

I've seen the pink slime many times and it was never in a bakery. Maybe bakeries have issues with yeast and crap growing in their machines but all the ones I've seen were in convience stores, and bars, no yeast there. MadHat was saying the yeast was coming from people not washing their hands after using the bathroom, he wasn't talking about bakeries. Sorry, still not "buying it"

I've seen the pink slime many times and it was never in a bakery. Maybe bakeries have issues with yeast and crap growing in their machines but all the ones I've seen were in convience stores, and bars, no yeast there. The OP was saying the yeast was coming from people not washing their hands after using the bathroom, he wasn't talking about bakeries. Sorry, still not "buying it"

I don't know anything about people not washing their hands. Guess I should have read a little deeper. I was merely referencing the fact that areas with allot of yeast in the air tend to have ice machine that have thing growing in them at an alarming rate. This is where I would recommends luminice